Adjustable window shade and curtain fixture.



A. LOGSDON. ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE. APPLIOATIONFILED JUNE 27,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFTQE.

ALFRED LOGSDON, OF PERRY, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE I.BIRDSALL, OF PERRY, IOWA.

ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED LOGSDON, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Perry, Dallas coun y, Iowa, have invented a newAdjustable Window Shade and Curtain Fixture, of which the following is aspecification.

My objectis to prevent the annoyances and difficulties incident tofastening fixtures to the top of a window casing for supporting windowshades and curtains.

Heretofore fixtures have been held in place by means of nails and screwsand the wooden window facing marred and damaged thereby. Adjustablefixtures have also been used but in no instance have the fixtures on theopposite sides of a window been adjustably connected with each other insuch a manner that they could be jointly adjusted relative to each otherand a window casing and clamped fast to the casing.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinationof parts as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim andillustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a face view of one of the main parts of my fixtures andshows an adjustable rod connected with its inner end. Fig. 2 is asectional view on the line a; a: of Fig. 1 and shows a toothed clampextending at right angles from the outer end of the main part and a partof a curtain support fixed to the end portion of the main part. Fig. 3is a modification of Fig. 1 and shows an extension at the outer end ofthe main part for the purpose of placing the shade bracket and thecurtain support some distance from the window casing whenever desired.Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse sectional view on the line 1 y of Fig.1 and shows how a bracket for a shade roller is detachably andadjustably connected with the main part. Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofa detachable shade bracket. Fig. 6 shows my invention applied to awindow as required for practical use. Fig. 7 shows an end view of thedevice shown in Fig. 1 looking from the left.

The numerals 10 designate the two mating main parts of my invention andconsist of straight flat metal bars that have outward bent parts 12 attheir inner ends provided with screw seats as required to admit theSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 27, 1907.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Serial No. 381,551.

screw ends of a rod 13 as shown in Fig. 6 for adjustably connectingthem. Their outer ends are bent inwards and preferably provided withteeth 14 as shown to bite fast to the edges of a window facing asrequired to clamp the complete fixture to a window as shown in Fig. 6.The central portion of each part 10 is out free at its sides and pressedoutward from its front face as clearly shown in Fig. 2, to serve as anelongated solid bearing 15 for detachable shade brackets 16 that haveopenings at the center of their lower ends and flat feet 17 and 18 thatproject in reverse ways, as shown in Fig. 5. Shade rollers of differentlengths are readily connected with the adjustable brackets.

To the outer ends of the parts 10 are fixed curtain supports 20 by meansof rivets, or in any suitable way, to project forward so a curtainroller can be readily placed thereon as required for suspending acurtain in front of the shade roller and shade. For rotating the rod 13as required for moving the mating parts 10 relative to each other forclamping them fast to a window facing the rod may be square at itscentral portion for applying a wrench, or it may be provided with holesinto which a nail or pin may be inserted for turning the rod.

Having thus set forth the purposes of my invention and its construction,application and manner of use its practical operation and utility willbe obvious.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

A fixture for window shades and curtains comprising mating fiat plateshaving their longitudinal central portions bent outward to produceelongated integral and solid bearers, their inner ends bent outward andprovided with screw holes, their outer ends bent inwards and terminatingwith teeth, shade roller supports fixed to their outer end portions andbrackets having openings in the centers of their lower ends and feetprojecting in reverse ways adjustably and detachably connected with saidelongated solid bearers projecting outward from said mating flat platesas shown to operate as set forth.

ALFRED LOGSDON.

Witnesses:

G. I. BIRDSALL, H. A. HOYT.

